The Butterfly Sign
Skip · Action · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 13, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.1h 3.8h to 100%
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 200 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended yesterday.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
The Butterfly Sign is a detective story putting players into the role of the survivor of a disastrous incident. The protagonist takes an experimental drug which immerses him in the depths of his mind. In his memories, he will discover the ones responsible for the disaster, little by little, step by step…
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 560ti or R7 260x, 18 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 65 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended yesterday.
It is less well reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, GET EVEN ($29.99, scores 30) beats it on value, while it beats Escape From School (free, scores 8).
More about The Butterfly Sign
Finishing takes 1.1 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
4% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
If you play at 1920x1080 resolution the game crashes so you have to play 1366x768 resolution. You can press Alt Enter for full screen. There are bugs with the menus like the cursor dosnt match up to the text which can be frustrating,. The game itself is very well done with voiceover and you can see the protagonists legs and feet when walking and running which is good. You can see your shadow on the wall which is...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Originally, "The Butterfly Sign" caught me with its bright and luring trailer, as well as an intriguing description. It isn`t expensive, so I decided, that I should try it, because I have always been attracted to such stories. I am very happy to have found something that differs from the hackneyed horror about the zombie apocalypse. And you know, I am very satisfied by the game.The genre of the "The Butterfly sign"...
Janky, broken, unfinished turd. I wouldn't refund a two buck title as a rule, but I dislike the idea of someone benefiting from having excrement such as this on spot sale for impulse purchases. Apparently there's a slightly tweaked build on sale named under the hilariously fitting moniker of "Human Error", and I don't think even the paid reviews gave it a thumbs-up.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Butterfly Sign scores 13/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/546700/the-butterfly-signReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.